Tennessee Day 4 100325

Jan (yawn) and Nancy rented a VRBO in the Smokey Mountains for us to stay Friday thru Sunday. Before we left Nancy waters her flowers with Koda's help.

We get to the VRBO and unload. The rental is so nice and the views....gorgeous!

The name of our rental. It truly was a "sight to see".

View from the front porch!

Dining area.

Doyle and I had the loft. Our view.

Once we were settled, Jan and Nancy took us to Rocky Branch Mountain Music located in Walland, Tennessee. On the way we came to this bridge. 

Rocky Branch is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of its Appalachian musical heritage. Held in a once old schoolhouse, it became a community center in 1996 and the home of Rocky Branch Mountain Music.

Every Friday night, they offer food at 6pm and music starts at 6:30pm. 

Each class room is a different genre of music! It's kind of hard to tell in this photo. But down this hall like the "store" sign you see, each room was labeled i.e. county, blue-grass, gospel, fiddle and mountain music.

You go to each room and stay as long or little as you like. You can also bring an instrument and play along as you can tell by the guy with a guitar in the right of this photo. This was the "Blue-grass" room.

A short clip from the "Blue-grass" room

This was the "Fiddle" room.

A clip from the "Fiddle" room

This was the "gospel" room. I noticed in each room while they were playing there would be a "lead" person who would say "so and so on mandolin" and they would play a solo part. Each person who played an instrument was highlighted. Pretty cool.

A clip from the "Gospel" room. (this clip was too big to upload here. It's still less than a minute.)

This was the "Mountain Music" room.

A clip from the "Mountain Music" room. (2 mins)

The "Country" room was the most visited and it was hard to get in there. We did finally but I didn't get any video or pictures.

Even though this wasn't my favorite music to listen to, it was fun. Very creative idea that someone had!

Tomorrow is day 5! Have a good one!